Aggregates
PostGraphile has support in its plugin system for powerful aggregates. This system was only introduced in 4.4 and is not well documented yet; should you need aggregates good starting points are:
- The
built in
PgConnectionTotalCountPluginwhich adds atotalCountaggregate to connections, counting all rows that match the criteria (ignoring pagination info) - The @graphile/pg-aggregates
module which adds
sumaggregates to the schema (more to come) - The Discord chat (feel free to post in the help-forum)
Aggregates ignore pagination info
Aggregates are performed over the entire collection - not just the data that
would be returned if you were to query the nodes. This means they ignore the
first, last, before, after and offset arguments. This is deliberate
(if you only need aggregates over the data that matches your pagination
information then you could calculate these on the client).
Aggregates only work on Relay connection
If you're using simpleCollections: "only" you can override it on a
per-collection basis with the
@simpleCollections smart tag.